Taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of early Miocene catarrhines from Sihong, China

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	Taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of early Miocene catarrhines from Sihong, China
	Harrison, T ; Gu, YM ; Harrison, T (reprint author), NYU, Dept Anthropol, New York, NY 10003 USA.
	1999-08-01
发表期刊	JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
ISSN	0047-2484
卷号	37 期号:2 页码:225-277
文章类型	Review
摘要	Paleontological investigations at sites in Sihong County, Jiangsu Province, China since 1981 have yielded a sizeable collection of previously undescribed fossil catarrhines from the Xiacaowan Formation. The associated vertebrate fauna indicates a late early Miocene age (correlating with MN 4, late Orleanian of Europe, similar to 17-18 Ma), which establishes the Sihong primates as the earliest known catarrhines from Eurasia. The fossil primates are assigned to two species: Dionysopithecus shuangouensis Li, 1978 and Platodontopithecus jiang-huaiensis Gu & Lin, 1983. Although the new material from Sihong consists mainly of isolated teeth, it does provide important new information on the anatomy of Dionysopithecus and Platodontopithecus that helps to clarify their phylogenetic and taxonomic status. Previous studies have suggested that the Sihong catarrhines might be closely related to the proconsulids from the early Miocene of East Africa. However, with more extensive material available for comparison, the Sihong primates can now be shown to share a number of key derived features with pliopithecids. This new evidence helps to resolve a longstanding problem concerning the origins of the Pliopithecidae. It was previously considered that specialized pliopithecids migrated into Europe during MN 5, originating from an unknown antecedent and location in Africa. Recognition that the Sihong primates have affinities with pliopithecids, but are more primitive, suggests that the initial differentiation and diversification of the clade may have taken place in Asia rather than Africa. The earliest Eurasian catarrhines probably migrated into tropical Asia as part of a major faunal interchange with Africa that occurred during MN 3. (C) 1999 Academic Press.; Paleontological investigations at sites in Sihong County, Jiangsu Province, China since 1981 have yielded a sizeable collection of previously undescribed fossil catarrhines from the Xiacaowan Formation. The associated vertebrate fauna indicates a late early Miocene age (correlating with MN 4, late Orleanian of Europe, similar to 17-18 Ma), which establishes the Sihong primates as the earliest known catarrhines from Eurasia. The fossil primates are assigned to two species: Dionysopithecus shuangouensis Li, 1978 and Platodontopithecus jiang-huaiensis Gu & Lin, 1983. Although the new material from Sihong consists mainly of isolated teeth, it does provide important new information on the anatomy of Dionysopithecus and Platodontopithecus that helps to clarify their phylogenetic and taxonomic status. Previous studies have suggested that the Sihong catarrhines might be closely related to the proconsulids from the early Miocene of East Africa. However, with more extensive material available for comparison, the Sihong primates can now be shown to share a number of key derived features with pliopithecids. This new evidence helps to resolve a longstanding problem concerning the origins of the Pliopithecidae. It was previously considered that specialized pliopithecids migrated into Europe during MN 5, originating from an unknown antecedent and location in Africa. Recognition that the Sihong primates have affinities with pliopithecids, but are more primitive, suggests that the initial differentiation and diversification of the clade may have taken place in Asia rather than Africa. The earliest Eurasian catarrhines probably migrated into tropical Asia as part of a major faunal interchange with Africa that occurred during MN 3. (C) 1999 Academic Press.
关键词	Dionysopithecus Platodontopithecus Sihong Xiacaowan Formation Pliopithecidae Miocene Biogeography
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
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关键词[WOS]	NEOGENE MAMMALIAN FAUNAS ; MIDDLE MIOCENE ; LACCOPITHECUS-ROBUSTUS ; ANTHROPOID PRIMATE ; EAST-AFRICA ; KENYA ; THAILAND ; EOCENE ; SUBDIVISION ; MORPHOLOGY
收录类别	SCI ; SSCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Anthropology ; Evolutionary Biology
WOS类目	Anthropology ; Evolutionary Biology
WOS记录号	WOS:000081945700004
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/3947
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
通讯作者	Harrison, T (reprint author), NYU, Dept Anthropol, New York, NY 10003 USA.
作者单位	1.NYU, Dept Anthropol, New York, NY 10003 USA 2.Acad Sinica, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Harrison, T,Gu, YM,Harrison, T . Taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of early Miocene catarrhines from Sihong, China[J]. JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION,1999,37(2):225-277.
APA	Harrison, T,Gu, YM,&Harrison, T .(1999).Taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of early Miocene catarrhines from Sihong, China.JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION,37(2),225-277.
MLA	Harrison, T,et al."Taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of early Miocene catarrhines from Sihong, China".JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION 37.2(1999):225-277.

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